Enable Tiger “Classic” Style Dock In Leopard and Snow Leopard

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Thomas Maurer

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO; killall DockIf you like the old or classic Dock Style from Mac OS X 10.4 you can enable this in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Dock:

Mac OS X 10.6 (Leopard) Dock:

Open Mac OS X Terminal in the Utilities folder
Run the following command in the Terminal
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock
Now you have the classic Dock activated

If you want to activate the new glass Dock again, you can use the following command:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO; killall Dock

Activate ESXi Console

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Thomas Maurer

If you use VMware ESXi you may wanna use the console to active SSH or maybe install HP Managment Tools (could also be any other management softtware). You don’t really need to do that on ESXi but its good to know that this is working.